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First off, I'm sorry about yesterday. But this is the kind of "not quite normal" I"m talking about. The town alerted us that they'd be shutting the power down so they could fix two lift stations. They said it would go down at 10 and last "maybe " 3 hours.

Nine. Yes it is month 9. I am actually having a hard time writing that. How on earth can it be September already. 2017 is still young, isn't it? Evidently not, because today is the first of September. Only 4 months left in this one.

Today's free investing newsletter is up and tonight we look at exactly, and I mean exactly why this bull market is different from the one's we've had in the past, and what's behind it all. Yes I'm talking Central banks, and just today the Swiss posted their latest 13F filing. Inside the hundreds of US stocks they own, we find that they bought FOUR BILLION dollars more. Their holdings now stand at 84 Billion dollars worth of US Stocks.

So when you wonder why stocks seem to defy gravity, check out is evening's letter. We spell it all out, including the links to their exact holdings.

Good morning everyone, welcome back from your weekend. As always I hope it was a really good one for you all.

Mine was fair to middlin. As you know I'm an MMA fan, and there was free fights on Friday night to watch, that's good. Then Saturday evening there was a pay per view MMA show with more free preliminaries. That was good too. The issue came up on Sunday however, as after church the wife and "thought" we were going biking to the beach. HA! At 12:30 we started hearing rumbles and sure enough by 1 pm, it was raining sideways and lightening was flying.

The other day I posted an article penned by Paul Craig Roberts. In his article, he was talking about why the nation’s so broke, yet we can be at war for 16 years, spending untold trillions, toppling nations, and for what? It was a decent article, as far as pointing out the fact that we’re knee deep in all these expensive wars, but with no truly justifiable outcome. If you haven’t seen it, go to his site, and read the June 29th article.

I don’t know the number, but there must be like 10K newsletters out there. Some of them are pretty good, some pretty funny and some not worth the digital ink they’re written on. But there’s certainly no shortage of them.

Over the many years I’ve been doing this letter, I’ve seen work posted on chat rooms, bulletin boards, web sites, blog sites, etc, from dozens if not hundreds of so called guru’s and experts. Like many, sometimes they’re hot, and sometimes they’re not. But as you cruise the net, it is fun to get all the perspectives.

One TRILLION dollars. Yes folks, the central banks of the world have purchased one TRILLION dollars worth of financial assets ( stocks and corporate bonds) in just the first quarter of this year. Now you know why the market flirts with all time highs despite Syria, N.Korea, falling retail sales, lousy PMI's etc. etc. Nothing matters because the Central banks are buying the market, keeping it up.

In this weeks free investment newsletter, we quote the Zero Hedge article that shows where that number came from. Then we talk about the Plunge protection team that we have here in the US. Yes folks, there is a group of folks who's job it is, is to keep our markets from falling. And we quote an ex member of that very team.

So take a minute to read this weeks free investing newsletter and you'll understand why the market can act like superman, in the face of things that would take a "normal" market to its knees.